You try to improvise in a compositional manner. You don't just do some stupid lick you've been practicing, scale form exercises or something.

The best thing is to find something you really love to do and enjoy that process for the rest of your life.

I have great samples of my drums and I try to program them pretty much how I want to play them, try and make it feel natural even though it's programmed.

I'm not going to limit myself in ways to compose or how I should record. You just do what you can with what you've got at the moment.

Japan and Europe seem to have a little more cultural education and so the crowds have been a little more big and enthusiastic, and the places I've played seem a little more classy.

Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic.

I'm happy doing what I do. That's ok. Some guy could appear tomorrow and do it much better than me, and so be it, but right now I'm just happy to be who I am doing what I do.

You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be.

I just want to make music on the drums.

You just chip away until the puzzle is complete.

I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don’t let stress steal your joy.

Just because you're alive doesn't mean you're living.

I have two questions about Arnold Schwarzenegger. What does he know, and when will he know it?

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.

Jesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven.

I was really upset. I felt like they tried to limit me, whoever 'they' may be. So I just said to myself third quarter I'm going to come out and do what I do.

In jest, there is truth.

I feel all of the archetypes in Silicon Valley probably exist in some other form in other subcultures.